Anyone who has never seen a wildhunt barbarian is missing out. It is so nice.

Can I just say, that I made a long tooth beast barbarian for a game I’m playing, and I’ve been feeling bad about it because a friend also made a shifter barbarian and I’ve been comparing myself to them, and they went with the Wildhunt shifter, and everyone says Wildhunts the best. But this video has completed me so excited to play this character, thank you.🙏

Love these builds, these are the best put together and cohesive builds i’ve seen. Not a thing out of place, and doesn’t leave you confused about certain aspects, or your role in a team.

This is litterly my 1st character ever: Beast/Echo that focused only claws. I capped out at 7 attacks on my nova round before the campaign ended I think. The kicker was that my guy Terrorclaw was a gnome, ended up bringing the meme with my 1st guy. The damage was pretty good with clone and rage active: attack x2, unleash incarnation echo attack, action surge, do my attack and incarnation again, then bonus action claw... then you have your infectious furies. Damage adds up fast.

Shifter is such a fun race for barbarians, this was a good build! I also like Tieflings for Beast Barbariams, as they already have a spiked tail. Call it Path of the Fiend 😈

To delve even further into the "nature/shifter" flavor, adding some form of lycanthropy sounds awesome.

Excellent work, great execution, this is definitely my next character build! Thank you so much for what you do!

WOW! What a fantastic build.

Another very cool build. Love Beast Barbarians. I would love to see a character build (preferably a Barbarian/Warlock hybrid) that focuses on Bite damage.

I love the concept. Super thematic and pretty strong. Best of all, it just *feels* good to play. Well done! I've always wanted to make a Wildhunt Shifter Barbarian with the Athlete Feat that drops prone at the end of each round. All ranged attacks have DisAdv, and Melee attacks Can't have Adv because of the Wildhunt Shift. You could flavor it as a barbarian break dancer or that you are so savage and reckless you are rolling around the battlefield and just being all around crazy. Before you attack on your next turn, stand up with 5ft of movement, reckless attack again, and then drop prone. I'm not entirely certain if Wildhunt shifting and prone would cause a Ranged attack to be at DisADV, but its a tool you could use without Reckless if you wanted to cancel out Adv from a ranged attack from a distance beyond 30ft.

Awesome build! Beast Barb was my first ever D&D character a few years ago. I used a black Dragonborn and took a lot of inspiration from the Alien and Predator movies.

Awesome build! I love all the builds you do, and a lot of your videos have helped with my DMing skills, especially modular design. Eureka moment right there. I especially love your challenge/themed builds. I don’t know if you do builds from comments on KZfaq, but if you do, I was wondering if you could do a spell shield build. It’s a build style that is rarely seen, since most arcane tanks rely on spells only, rather than using a shield as well as tank spells, for stuff like temp hp and focusing enemies on you.

I love that the Beast Barbarian can give temporary hit points to everyone, including Familiars and Beast Master Companions because I think a true Beast Barbarian would view them as full party members as well.

So, I had a character who was a werewolf who used the shifter plus beast barbarian combo. Though I flavored it to be more dog like with big floppy ears, and a smaller size with a friendlier disposition.

This is one of my own builds. Highly recommend very strong and fun.

Hey it’s my idea! I actually kinda forgot about beast barbarian, good job there. While I also wanted some nature magic (I think I mentioned it in a reply to my suggestion but whatever,) this is an amazing build. Thank you for your time

Awesome! How about a build using an Owlin with the themes of seeing everything, being wise, while also not being seen. So something like a scout?

Ive been playing a Wildhunt Shifter/Beast Barb for a few sessions now. Its everything I hoped it would be.

I literally just built this guy! Printed the character sheet last night. He suffers from degenerative therianthropy that is slowly converting him to a mindless beast. Great vid, love your work

Kai Urson of the Urson clan is a Wildhunt Shifter Beast Barbarian, infected by the spirit of ancient Raptor Spirit. His favored rage is the tail form and he has a Bloodfury Tattoo as well (nerfed but levels up with me). He is a bully support tank with no negative modifiers. I'm gonna multiclass rogue soul blades and get expertise in athletics for more disruption. Flavoring the sneak attacks as last second flourishes that somehow get around the armor. DM also said I could add finesse to my tail form after some training so my weapon options open up quite a bit.

I wanna build this character as a gnome. When the gnome gets mad the real beast comes out.

I love the flavor of this subclass and i have an idea i wanna do with it involving a variant winged tiefling so i can take infernal constitution and be resistant to fire, cold, and poison damage and just completely wreck enemies and flie at them when a flying one decides to run.

I liked the idea of the symic hybrid focusing on the tail reach and acid spit. Story being their friends all got accepted into different schools and colleges and this guy got desperate and addicted to body modification and bestial power to keep up with them

Every time he says "shift" take a shot!

Longtooth shifter and Path of the beast barbarian is my favorite build.

This may not entirely follow the prompt, depending on whether or not the "Shifter" part of the prompt refers specifically to the Shifter lineage or simply that it must include shapeshifting of some kind, but another lineage that fits well with Beast Barbarian is the Dhampir. Between the bite and the spider climb that Dhampirs get baseline, you effectively get to double-dip on subclass features by going Beast Barbarian, since you can get both a claw and a bite and you are free to choose something other than climbing for the Bestial Soul feature. Though, as a caveat, the Dhampir bite doesn't synergize fully with Barbarian, because you can't recklessly attack or get your rage bonus damage with it due to it using Constitution instead of Strength. That being said, the Dhampir's bite does get advantage when at low health, and can be used to either heal or boost an ability check or attack roll. It also works thematically, since bestial shapeshifting is incredibly common in vampire lore. And if you have the Wisdom for it, a dip into Gloomstalker Ranger really lets you double down on the vampire as ambush predator motif.

I can tell you from experience that's mixing echo nights with beast barbarian is Absolutely game-breaking. My DM gave me the belts of dwarvinkind Which gave me a plus One in constitution Which increased my score to a plus four. Because of echo nights this means I had 4 uses of Unleash carnet Before taking a short rest. And on top of this I was a warforge juggernaut With an unarmed hand-to-hand combat fighting stands. So many Claw attacks. Oh yeah my gave me the insignia of claws. 🤣

Ranger is great for expertise and a fighting style some out of combat spells. gloomstalker and hunter for added damage on our attacks. I used to think spore druid for the temp hp but by level 6 you're losing those temp hp points in one smack half damage or not lol

A beast barbarian I really like is the Dhampir beast barbarian. Like the shifter, there is some solid synergy. The beast barb has a few powers that scale off your con, like the Dhampir bite does. I don’t know for sure whether it overlaps with the beast bite like some sort of constitutional finesse, but if it does then that is fantastic. As the beast barbarian hits level six, you can choose between being able to breathe underwater, gaining a climbing speed, or gaining a ridiculously powerful jump. As a Dhampir, you do not need to breathe at all, and by level three you can walk hands free on walls and ceilings, so by picking up the super jump you have essentially gained every power in that feature simultaneously. Obviously high constitution is great on a barbarian, particularly with a con based attack. If you want to have high strength you can be a grappler and, with two free grappling hands lock down multiple enemies and either impale them with your stabby tail or just eat them for more power. Alternatively you can leave your strength as your third best stat and focus on dex to get your ac unusually high, combined with the tail potentially causing a 27 attack to miss. Because you have a con attack you can still consistently land attacks, and between being able to leap thirty feet and being able to stick to walls most enemies will have trouble getting away from you whether you are grappling or not. Of course picking up expertise in athletics will make grapples and jump checks absurd when you rage, as even a slightly above average strength score with expertise and advantage is not going to lose often. At level six with 14 strength the average grapple or jump check comes out to 23. There is plenty of synergy there and I like that the Dhampir makes you less like a primal beast man and more like a horror monster man.

I literally built this same character a few weeks ago! I haven’t planned out which feats he would take over the course of his progression, though; apart from skill expert for athletics, what would you recommend? The weakness of this character would be magic (no resistance), so, perhaps mage slayer? There will likely be a wildfire Druid in the party who can teleport me beyond the screen and into the back line to take out any squishy casters. My DM is allowing me to shift and rage as part of the same action (a godsend). The idea is that my shifter powers are a secret from my party and I’m not allowed to use them until level three when I gain my beast subclass; shifting at that point will seem like it’s a part of my class rather than a terrible curse I’ve kept from them:)

Should keep in mind that absent a magic item like insignia of claws, your shifting bite attack might not be effective against enemies with resistance or immunity to B/P/S damage from non-magical weapons. Beast barbarian's magical attacks only applies to the one you get from rage, so if you intend to use the claws then your shifter BA bite attack will be non-magical, if you take the fang rage it should work ok, but you will be back to only having 3 attacks which a shifter could do with almost any martial class. Points for a fighter multiclass is with the unarmed fighting style you could deal a little more damage to creatures you are grappling, and the shifter bite unarmed strike could possibly* be boosted from 1d6 to 1d8 [while using claws or tail transformation or outside of rage] * -possibly because the fighting style specifies its bludgeoning damage, while shifter fangs specify piercing damage, so they could be argued to be mutually exclusive.

Can you do a paladin barb multiclass that goes mostly into barb?

Shifter Longtooth 10 beast barbarian 6 gloom ranger 4 eldritch knight

I think a beast barbarian small sized harengon sounds like a ton of fun

A fun beast barbarian build is a goblin. Flavor everything as a toddler (rage is a temper tantrum)

These builds are always cool. Has anyone done a good build based on the fey pact warlock?

Your hands have to be empty for claw attacks. Or at least the one you're attacking with needs to be empty.

Going ranger after barbarian actually makes a lot of sense. - You keep the nature theme - You can technically concentrate com favored foe (not RAI though) - Spell slots can used on healing and utility Paladin is also cool, you can smite with the claws

Been trying to find a good 'puppet master' summoner bard flavouring the summons as different puppets, but having problems with the spells

harengon unfailing persuasion and deception feylost with at least 1 level in hexblade warlock and mostly into fighter

No thought of an order of the lycan blood hunter for shifting into a wolf form?

So...... loving the flavor. But my brain went. Lol loopholes. No druid right. Horizon Walker Ranger 11. Fight style Druidic warrior (the loophole ... ha ha) Beast barbarian 9. With all the reckless attacks. Add in teleports for added carnage. ☕️ ☕️

Why not a Goliath Dinoshifter? The reconciliation of Giantkin and Dracosaurians may be at hand

i tried a wild hunt barb before, the bonus action economy sucks often times i went without the wildhunt shift or he barb rage, by the time i got it up and running most of the combat was over so its only good for longer combats like for bosses, i mean i did fine anyways but being just 1 round behind everyone sucked, neat concept tho

I have less of a critique and more like a question? Isn't the Second Claw attack you can make (before getting Ext Attack) a bonus action as well? So you wouldn't be able to use your Longtooth Bonus Action Atrack and your Extra Claw Attack in the same turn, unless you can have two bonus actions. Also Beast Barbarian (13)+ Rune Knight (7) is great combination of Barbarian's big constitution Score as a Casting Score. I made mine with Unarmed Fighting (cause i wanted to be a Pseudo-Monk), Claws when i went Feral, but also you can take advantage of the Tail.

A long time ago I had Karni. Longtooth Shifter/Spore Druid. I took Infestation and got Hex. I was like a rabid dog when I shifted Backstory was he killed the evil Ring Master and escaped a dilapidated circus

Can you use sneak attack on the claws of beast Barb? 🤔

I am very new to Dnd and right now I am running a Goliath Barbarian with The Path of The Beast, does anyone have any tips for me in terms of combat, movement, actions, etc?

Greatswprd requires 2 hands, the claw attack can only be made a free hand so you dropping the sword?

Shifter in D&D, Wolfkin in Dragonbane. Great to play, "Ripn'tearing furries everyday" As my d.m said, you DONT call werebeasts/ beastfolk, furries. Sure they both have fur but the former is badass in everyway. The latter is expendable unhinged fetish prey😂 Oh and dont call mallards featheries. You think a certain Donald duck is dangerous in angrymode? Mallards will quack you a new one or ten!

So its funny cuz ive been playing this build before this video came out XD but I'm the beast hide shifter path of the beast barbarian.

What I see is a character that has tons of uses for its bonus action. Maybe too many.

Where is the fourth attack coming from? Barbarians get 2 attacks, Form of the Beast gets you an extra Claw attack, what is the 4th attack?

To dual your claws .. don't you need dual welding? Since your claws only count as simple weapons. Not light weapons

A champions Beast barbarian could be atomic!!!!!

4:10 but wait, you would bite in the third round not in the second: you cannot bite since shifting itself is a bonus action, right? I suffer this actions economy

The very unfortunate thing about most barbarians is you're basically always better off going fighter after at most 8th level barb. Most of the 10+ features on Barb just aren't as worth it as almost anything levels 1-12 on fighter. Sure having 24 con and str is nice, but that's level 20... almost everything else before this is at most just ok and at worst just worthless.

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